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This Could Be Scary: A Halloween Candy Shortage

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Journalist Mehr Bedi reports, “Hershey Co said on [28 July] it would fall short of meeting demand for the all-important Halloween and Christmas holiday seasons this year, blaming a scarcity of raw ingredients and difficulties in securing suppliers.”[1] ”[4] Tight supplies and high demand are an inflationary mix.

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Digital Supply Chains Require People, Processes, and Technology

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These networks draw on tools with seamless, real-time communication between manufacturing, logistics providers, suppliers and applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management (WMS), transportation management (TMS) and order management (OMS). ”[6] Why? Those are inputs, not outputs.

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Are You Prepared for a Climate-Change Charged Hurricane Season?

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”[1] Unlike many events that disrupt supply chains, hurricanes can be anticipated and plans can be put in place to mitigate their effects. … One of the reasons cited by executives on why they weren’t prepared? … One of the reasons cited by executives on why they weren’t prepared? Denial of risk.”[6]

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Accelerate Your Business with this B2B e-Commerce Checklist

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I recently posed this question in my blog: Most Marketing Leaders Are Investing in B2B Digital Commerce: Why Aren’t You? The pandemic raised the demand for digital commerce solutions, whether or not enterprises were prepared. The pandemic raised the demand for digital commerce solutions, whether or not enterprises were prepared.

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Consumers Are in Charge of the Digital Path to Purchase

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Tom Standage ( @tomstandage ), editor of The Economist ‘s ‘ The World in 2021 ‘, writes, “The adoption of new technological behaviors in response to the pandemic, from video-conferencing to online shopping, means usage has already reached levels that were not expected for many more years.”[1] Consumers are in control from beginning to end.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

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However, only 3% of companies apply automated execution and 7% autonomous end to end planning. Hardly a recipe for improving planning & decision making. The idea of Intelligent IBP is to close these planning, decision & execution gaps and grasp the opportunities that comes with it. And we sometimes already do.

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5 Things Startups Must Know Before Launching a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)!

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11 out of 12 new businesses fail , and that is sad. The more important question is why some of them actually succeed. But, before launching the MVP product, several questions should be answered in order to determine the direction of your future steps as you learn and adapt your product according to the market’s demands.